scholarly journals The Old Greeks

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kouvaros
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead

In his final unfinished book on the writing of history, Siegfried Kracauer wonders about his increasing susceptibility to ‘the speechless plea of the dead’. ‘[T]he older one grows, the more he is bound to realize that his future is the future of the past—history.’ For the children of migrants, the question of how to speak well of the dead is distinguished by complex feelings of attachment and rejection, identification and denial that are expressed in a range of everyday interactions. ‘The Old Greeks’ examines the part played by photographic media in this process of memorialisation. It elaborates a series of propositions about the value of photographic media that are tested through a consideration of the events that surrounded the author’s first years in Australia.

scholarly journals Karl Marx og fortidens utopiske potentialer

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (114) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Bertel Nygaard
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Past History ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

KARL MARX AND THE UTOPIAN POTENTIALS OF THE PAST | Karl Marx explicitly situated modern emancipation struggles in the present rejecting the power of the past over the presentalong with utopian schemes for the future. But a closer study of his position reveals that his notion of the present was remarkably open towards aspects of the past and potentials for future alternatives, as long as these were conceived from – and as moments within – present struggles. Thus, his rejection ofcertain visions of past and future was mainly a critique of specific ideological configurations characteristic of modern bourgeois society, including reified notions of the past, history and temporality. From this critique we may derive a fruitful, discerning approach to the complex interrelations of utopia, ideology, past, present and future, founded on a critical reconstruction of the category of time as a differentialsocial relation, persistently constructed and reconstructed through conflictual social agency.

scholarly journals Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kuijt
Keyword(s):  
Single Family ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
House Societies ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Family House

This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all largely the same size and with similar internal organization. These space were deeply connected to telling the generative narratives of the House as a historical and genealogical social unit, including the lives and actions of the ancestors, and in some cases embedding them physically within the fabric of the building. Çatalhöyük multi-family House members decorated some important rooms with display elaboration that focused on the past, the future and the family, while the dead from the households, who in many ways were still alive and part of the ancestral House, lived beneath the floor. This study underlines that researchers need to consider social scales beyond the single-family household and consider how the multi-family House existed as an organizational foundation within Neolithic villages.

scholarly journals Death and Woman: Comparing the Meaning of the Deaths of the Female Main Characters in the Works of Toni Morrison and Alice Munro

Lexicon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Munjid
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Set Up

This paper seeks to explore the meaning of death in two important works by two female Noble Prize winning authors, Toni Morrison and Alice Munro. Hagin’s (2010) theory of role of death in storyline is used to analyze the works. The three deaths found in the story: initial death, intermediary death and story-terminating death all have significant meaningful relation to the past and the future. They have epistemological value of revealing and/or exposing the truth from the past. Death is used as technical instrument to reveal the truth, to transform ignorance into knowledge, dishonesty into accountability, to purify the past from falsehood and lies. Death also inserts its demand in the story by removing obstacle or giving opportunity for the living to set up new goal. The demand of the dead is possible since the deceased is “remembered” by the “cult” who may follow or manipulate their legacy. The two authors articulate “feminist voice” through the struggle of the main female characters. Toni Morrison articulates the dehumanizing consequence of racism, whereas Alice Munro voices her concern on the contradictory nature of orderly neat appearance of the modern people versus scandalous dark secret beneath the surface.Keywords: dehumanization, feminist voice, initial death, intermediary death, story-terminating death, racism.

scholarly journals Beyond History: A Legacy and a Vision

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor I. Cabral-Lim ◽  
Martesio C. Perez
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
University History ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Introduction This work is a tribute to all those who have shaped the Department of Neurosciences of the National University Hospital and the University of the Philippines Health Sciences Center. I am deeply honored to have collaborated with my highly esteemed mentor and colleague, Dr. Martesio Perez, Professor Emeritus of the University. History is more than a chronology of the past. There is much more beyond the names and events of the past. History has not only made us what we are today, but will also guide us to where we want to be in the future. As the historian David McCullough stated, "History is an unending dialogue between the past and the present." This written history starts at the present, goes back in time, and moves forward toward our envisioned future.

scholarly journals Wrongs of the Past, History of the Future?

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre d’Argent
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Praying and Witnessing

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
David Henig
Keyword(s):  
Critical Events ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dream Visions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Islamic Healing ◽  
The Dead

This chapter examines the role of prayer (dova) in Muslim life. The act of prayer belongs to the villagers’ repertoires of vital exchange whereby blessing, prosperity, and vitality are accessed, and relations between life and the afterlife, and between the living, the dead, and the divine are maintained and cultivated. Prayer is thus crucial in villagers’ temporal orientations toward the past, present, and the future. The chapter focuses on two major forms of prayer. First, it explores how prayer is deployed to address matters here and now, and/or prospectively by introducing examples of Islamic healing, and dream visions and divination. Second, it analyzes how acts of prayer intersect with and shape the ethics of memory. It shows how the idiom of dova provides village Muslims with a vocabulary with which to engage with the critical events of the past and becomes a mode of historical experience. Specifically, it focuses on how prayer is performed by the living for the souls of the dead, including war martyrs from the 1992-95 war, as well as from the Ottoman era.

Remembering the Future, Anticipating the Past: History, Time, and Cosmology among the Maya of Yucatan

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Farriss
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
General View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This essay is about concepts of time and the past among the Maya Indians of Yucatan in southeastern Mexico. It explores how these concepts fit into the Maya's general view of the way the world works and how they relate to certain dynamics of Maya history—as we define history—during their pre-Hispanic and colonial past. One inspiration has been the often baffling written records the Maya have left, from which we try to quarry historical facts without always enquiring what the records meant to the people who produced them. The other is the reminder, provided by recent historical work from anthropologists, that people do not record their past so much as construct it, with an eye to the present, and at the same time use that past in molding the present.

scholarly journals The Signaling Value of Punishing Norm-Breakers and Rewarding Norm-Followers

Games ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Adriani ◽  
Silvia Sonderegger
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Past History ◽  
Signaling Device ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Reward ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation

We formally explore the idea that punishment of norm-breakers may be a vehicle for the older generation to teach youngsters about social norms. We show that this signaling role provides sufficient incentives to sustain costly punishing behavior. People punish norm-breakers to pass information about past history to the younger generation. This creates a link between past, present, and future punishment. Information about the past is important for youngsters, because the past shapes the future. Reward-based mechanisms may also work and are welfare superior to punishment-based ones. However, reward-based mechanisms are fragile, since punishment is a more compelling signaling device (in a sense that we make precise).

scholarly journals Islamic Perspective on Syaifudin Ibrahim’s Priester (Analysis Of The Views, Assumptions And Challenges Of The Reverend Syaifuddin Ibrahim Against Muslims)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Eko Nopriyansa
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Human Life ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Dialogue ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The phenomenon of religious people and freedom to choose religion as a belief in life becomes freedom that cannot be bargained. The series of past history reminds religious people that the Presence of Religion is on the most principle principle, in order to be a solution in various aspects of human life, apart from the dark history of Religion which is ridden by the interests of power and vice versa on the power of Religion. Furthermore, the context of the past is a compass of the future of Religion which is burdened by every follower of Religion. The presence of Christianity as a Missionary religion and Islam as a Da'wah religion opened a space for religious social dialogue, because both were involved in Agamanization. Furthermore, the two characteristics possessed by each religion will certainly ignite the enthusiasm of Christian evangelists and preachers on the part of Islam to compete in assuming the truth of the perspective. The presence of this article will open a space for scientific dialogue to the two communities, in exposing the views and assumptions of Reverend Murtadin Saifudin Ibrahim who has an Islamic background and assumes that he is one of the Islamic leaders who then turned to become a Christian priest. Furthermore this article is not an Interference to Saifudin Ibrahim's new beliefs, but this article is to answer Saifudin Ibrahim's assumptions and views on Islam as the largest religion among religious people in Indonesia. In the end, hopefully this article can answer various obscure views and thoughts, and thoughts that intercept the faith in Islam in Indonesia.

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